Case File · AARO · Post-Cold War (1990-2016) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

2010 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P51)

UFO Visual Sighting

A memo was sent from the Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. The content of the memo is not detailed on this page. It is an internal communication.

December 1, 2010
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 214
Source document: PURSUE doc 214 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 51 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated December 1, 2010 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

A memo was sent from the Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. The content of the memo is not detailed on this page. It is an internal communication.

Witnesses on file: Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director.

Status of the case

The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.

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